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Joscelyn Godwin is a good scholar to read and get in touch with. He's a music professor and big in the esoteric studies scene. On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 3:03 PM, K R Perlow <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Has anyone else on this list explored the interplay of Renaissance music > and magic? The particular coincidence which intrigues me is that of the > the fantasia as a popular polyphonic compositional form with the rise and > fall of the Renaissance neo-Platonist revival. The first known polyphonic > fantasia (i.e., a piece so named) was by Josquin des Prez, ca. 1490, and > the last (before occasional Romantic and modern revivals) by Henry Purcell > in 1680. I've read Gary Tomlinson's work on music and magic, also Penelope > Gouk, but neither addresses that particular topic (and so I consider that > sometimes a coincidence is just a coincidence, but that's hard for a > Platonist to swallow). Any other leads? > > Ken Perlow >